everest – himalaya.dk

My book on the Himalayas

bobelvedere — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 14:53:00 +0000

I worked on this book for almost seven years, and finally I finished it in the spring of 2020.

It is close to 600 pages packed with pictures and information taking its starting point in my own adventures on the highest mountains on the planet. You get the exploration history of the Himalayas, the story of the ascents of the first major mountains, the early attempts on mountains like K2, Mount Everest and many others.

There is success, hardship, and tragic disasters, some from the early history of climbing, some so late that I participated in it.

The images of the book are both historic as well as from my own prolonged periods in these amazing mountains. In total I spent more than 6 years climbing, trekking and exploring in the Himalayas from the westernmost parts in the Karakorams of Pakistan, through the Indian Ladakh region until the eastern part of Nepal close to the border to Sikkim where the mighty, third heighest mountain in the world, Kangchenjunga, resides.

The cover of the book displaying both front and back. As you can se from the cover, the book is written in danish, but don’t dispair, I’m in the process of making an english edition, although it will take a while.

The book has received very positive reviews, and has sold pretty well. It is definitely not only for mountaineers and armchair mountaineers, but also for people interested generally in exploration and with a historic interest.

The above image shows the “prototypes” of the book used in a kickstarter campaign to gather money for the actual publishing. The campaign was succesful in reaching 150% of the goal, and I am grateful for the support, enabling me to finish the book and publish it.

The danish version and my other books (also quite a lot in english) is available from the publisher BoD both in printed as well as eBok version: BoD bookshop

I hope you will support my work and buy the book.

2013 Everest without oxygen

bobelvedere — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 06:31:01 +0000

Everest 2013 spring expedition.

Bo Belvedere Christensen tried to become the first danish climber to summit without oxygen bottles. Bo led a tree man/woman expedition to the north side of Mt. Everest attempting the classical North Col route.

The two participants, Rikke Hoejland and Martin Cederkrantz, reached the summit in late May, while Bo attempting without oxygen bottles was a few days behind. Luckily, Bo rescued two foreign climbers coming down from the summit totally exhausted. Unhappily, this meant that Bo was too exhausted to continue his own summit attempt and turned back hoping for another go.

But moonson closed in on Everest and there were to be no further summit attempts. Therefore, Bo in his third attempt on Everest without oxygen again had to capitulate. He will attempt again in 2014 or 2015 given support from sponsors.

Bo have now reached the following heights on Everest without oxygen:

2013: 7900 meter
2000: 8100 meter
1996: 8450 meter (in second attempt this year)
1996: 7900 meter (first attempt this year)

Expeditions in 1996 and 2000 were arranged by The Danish Himalayan Society.

Mt. Everest from the North in the early morning light

Changtse 7543 meter

bobelvedere — Fri, 17 May 2013 06:47:15 +0000

Succes on Changtse in the spring of 2013.

Bo Belvedere Christensen leading an expedition to the North side of Mt. Everest attempted the Northern summit of Everest from the North Col during the acclimatisation to Everest.

Climbing to around 7300 meter a few days previously Bo knew that the last part was going to be very steep climbing over broken ground. On May 16th 2013 he climbed the remaining part experiencing very dangerous rock condition on the last part. Climbing alone there was no danger as the falling rocks just fell to the glacier below him. After around 5 hours from the North Col Bo reached the summit as the first Danish climber ever.

Bo on the summit of Changtse with Everest in the background